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You can't light a powder keg without a match. (You could whistle it, even.) Over the last five years, both Skrillex's work and overground electronic music at large have moved far past the blocky brilliance of "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," but both would sound unquestionably different if it never existed. It practically made "the drop" a mainstream term-to the point that, after the song's release, Skrillex himself couldn't even share his favorite Aphex Twin song without being plagued by a thousand people asking, "Where's the drop?"Īnd with good reason: no other faux-dubstep-era "drop"-the kind anchored around bass so coruscating and abrasive that it knocks the fillings loose from your teeth-has sounded so simultaneously aggressive and melodic. Listening back today, it reads like a Calvin-peeing windshield decal in the face of genre purism, and seems to predict today's post-genre pop music landscape.Īnd can you talk about "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" without mentioning the drop? It's the song that launched a thousand bass faces. It's an otherworldly combination of old-school video game music, gross-sounding basslines, internet detritus, and the wide-eyed optimism of the lap-pop music made by the Postal Service, Lali Puna, and the Notwist in the early 2000s. Like most music criticism, very little of these gripes have held up years later-and the song that started it all, "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," still bangs. He was perverting the true nature of dubstep! His haircut sucked! He used to be emo! Also, his fans were terrible! Remember when people hated Skrillex? It feels like forever ago, but there was a time in the 2010s when just mentioning his name would make people (mostly, music critics) go absolutely apeshit. Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" (2010) In other words, it's just as easy to overthink as it is to play over for the eightieth time. It's giddy, impersonal, and an uncanny presaging of the "Live for today, because tomorrow may never come" attitude that would come to define EDM as a whole. The "whoa-oh-oh"s sound like candy-painted drill bits boring into the track's cool, metallic foundation. She's sounded like a ghost in the machine of her own music ever since, and this particular confection-spun to sugary perfection by producers Max Martin, Alexander Kronlund, Ke$ha, and Dr. "Till the World Ends," from Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatale, was borne from Spears' latest career phase-managed by a conservatorship that was set up following her highly publicized mental health struggles in the mid-to-late-2000s. There's a ton of subtext to be read into this endless trend, almost all of it relating to industry-based misogyny-and Spears has certainly been through the wringer when it comes to the myriad ways that the music industry chews up and spits out female artists.
Britney Spears - "Till the World Ends" (2011)ĭid Britney Spears invent EDM? Put aside the outlandishness of the suggestion for a minute, and consider the way female vocalists typically appear within the context of the genre-cum-marketing-term: painted on with total anonymity, not unlike the blank android faces in the faux-deep Will Smith sci-fi actioner I, Robot.